I forgot to mention my Christmas Heckler. Better tell that one, while it’s fresh in the memory banks.
It was magical. A regular monthly open mic I do, just before the big day. Everyone in a festive mood. And, hey, I’ve got some festive songs in my locker. So, in theory, I could do my usual thing, and play my own tunes.
I was finishing off the night, and returning to a song I played earlier, a recent creation, called Merry Christmas To Me. I’d already taught the audience the chorus, because it’s one that demands a sing along.
And then a lady, who, as you might expect, had imbibed a few alcoholic beverages, started to give me grief. Awkward. She wanted a song she knew. Most people do, to be fair. In her case, she was after Mustang Sally. Great song! But I don’t play it.
So we had a little bit of banter, very slurred banter from her direction, and then I went ahead and sang the song I'd already introduced. Everybody else sang it with extra gusto because of the heckle. And as we all sang my heckler got into the spirit of it all, so we finished as friends on the night.
It’s always a risk playing your own songs to an audience that aren’t familiar with them. But, it’s usually worth pushing through and trying to win them over in my experience.
Every song ever sang Is unfamiliar in the beginning.
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